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Thursday June 6, 2019. 02:56 PM
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (binutils), Debian (exim4 and poppler), Fedora (deepin-api, kernel, kernel-headers, kernel-tools, and php), openSUSE (cronie), and Ubuntu (apparmor, exim4, mariadb-10.1, php5, and php7.0, php7.2).
Wednesday June 5, 2019. 11:58 PM
Debian takes an almost completely 'hands off' approach to the decisions that Debian developers (DDs) can make in regard to the packaging and maintenance of their packages. That leads to maximal freedom for DDs, but impacts the project in other ways, some of which may be less ...
The kernel self-test framework (kselftest) has been a part of the kernel for some time now; a relatively recent proposal for a kernel unit-testing framework, called KUnit, has left some wondering why both exist. In a lengthy discussion thread about KUnit, the justification...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (python-django), openSUSE (curl and libtasn1), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (etcd, kernel-alt, and rh-python36-python-jinja2), Scientific Linux (thunderbird), SUSE (libvirt), and Ubuntu (db5.3, linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-kvm,...
Tuesday June 4, 2019. 11:09 PM
The CockroachDB database management system has been relicensed; the new license is non-free. 'CockroachDB users can scale CockroachDB to any number of nodes. They can use CockroachDB or embed it in their applications (whether they ship those applications to customers or run...
The Mozilla blog announces a new Firefox feature: 'One of those initiatives outlined was to block cookies from known third party trackers in Firefox. Today, Firefox will be rolling out this feature, Enhanced Tracking Protection, to all new users on by default, to make it...
Nina Zakharenko has been programming for a long time; when she was young she thought that 'the idea that I could trick computers into doing what I tell them was pretty awesome'. But as she joined the workforce, her opportunities for 'creative coding' faded away; she regained ...
Stable kernels 5.1.7, 5.0.21, and 4.19.48 have been released. They all contain the usual set of important fixes. This is the last 5.0.y release and users should move to 5.1.y now.
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (python-django and python2-django), Debian (heimdal), Fedora (kernel, kernel-headers, kernel-tools, and sqlite), openSUSE (containerd, docker, docker-runc, go, go1.11, go1.12, golang-github-docker-libnetwork and...
Nedim Šabić has written a tutorial article on using the eXpress Data Path for fast packet filtering. 'Now comes the most relevant part of our XDP program that deals with packet’s processing logic. XDP ships with a predefined set of verdicts that determine how the kernel...
Monday June 3, 2019. 11:48 PM
The fs‑verity mechanism has its origins in the Android project; its purpose is to make individual files read-only and enable the kernel to detect any modifications that might have been made, even if those changes happen offline. Previous fs‑verity implementations have run int...
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (curl, lib32-curl, lib32-libcurl-compat, lib32-libcurl-gnutls, libcurl-compat, libcurl-gnutls, and live-media), Debian (doxygen and php5), Fedora (cryptopp, drupal7-context, drupal7-ds, drupal7-module_filter,...
The 5.2-rc3 kernel prepatch has been released. 'Anyway, even ignoring the SPDX changes, there's just a lot of small fixes spread all over, not anything that looks particularly scary or worrisome. Maybe next week is when the other shoe drops, but maybe this will just be a...
Friday May 31, 2019. 06:15 PM
The 5.1.6, 5.0.20, 4.19.47, 4.14.123, and 4.9.180 stable kernels have been released. As usual, they contain important fixes throughout the kernel tree; users of those series should upgrade.
The basic organizational construct within the Kubernetes project is a set of Special Interest Groups (SIGs), each of which represents a different area of responsibility within the project. Introductions to what the various SIGs do, as well as more detailed sessions, were a...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (miniupnpd and qemu), Fedora (drupal7-entity and xen), openSUSE (kernel), Oracle (bind and firefox), Red Hat (go-toolset-1.11-golang), SUSE (cronie, evolution, firefox, gnome-shell, java-1_7_0-openjdk, jpeg, and mailman), and...
Thursday May 30, 2019. 06:26 PM
The set of system calls known collectively as epoll was designed to make polling for I/O events more scalable. To that end, it minimizes the amount of setup that must be done for each system call and returns multiple events so that the number of calls can also be minimized....
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (firefox and libvirt), Debian (openjdk-8 and tomcat7), Fedora (drupal7-entity), Mageia (kernel), openSUSE (bluez, gnutls, and libu2f-host), Oracle (bind), Red Hat (bind), Scientific Linux (bind), SUSE (axis, libtasn1, and...
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